Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 2019 (Richard Bowes for Live4ever)
Our recap of the biggest and best headlines we featured during the past seven days includes another huge blow for Glastonbury and live music, and new album details from Sleeper.
In a joint statement, Michael and Emily Eavis have confirmed what has seemed increasingly likely during recent weeks, that Glastonbury has been cancelled for a second year in a row.
“With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced fallow year for us,” a statement from the family reads.
Royal Blood have confirmed the details of their third studio record Typhoons.
It’ll open with last year’s Trouble’s Coming, a single that’s been followed up with the title-track.
Weezer have confirmed the details of their new record, and are previewing it with All My Favorite Songs.
OK Human will be released shortly, on January 29th, crafted by Rivers Cuomo at the piano with The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds in mind, something realised further once recording got underway with a 38-piece orchestra.
Sleeper will release This Time Tomorrow later this month after finally completing the album they first started at the dawn of the new millennium during lockdown.
“These are tracks that have been sitting on our hard drive since the 90s,” Louise Wener says. “Songs we’ve lived with and loved all this time. With all the restrictions of lockdown they resonated in a way I wasn’t expecting.”
The War On Drugs brought their essential LIVE DRUGS album to the attention of late night US television audiences as the musical guests of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
They did so, however, by performing an at-home version of a track which doesn’t feature on the record, Arms Like Boulders going back to the more countrified, Kurt Vile influenced days of their debut album Wagonwheel Blues, from where one of LIVE DRUGS’ highlights, Buenos Aires Beach, was also taken.
20 years ago, they were gone in an instant as quick as the impact their huge hit made in the US and UK.
But last week they were back, the New Radicals fulfilling their pledge to perform at Joe Biden’s inauguration after it emerged what big fans the new President’s family are of You Get What You Give.